Police bust car snatching gang

Two suspected members of a car snatching syndicate have been arrested by operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

Ahmed Olamilekan and Abiodun Ogunkanni were said to have snatched two vehicles from their owners.

They operate on motorcycles on Oworonsoki Expressway, where they trail their victims to their homes and dispossess them of their vehicles.

They snatched a Toyota Camry marked MUS795CD and a Lexus Jeep with registration number LSR269EM, from their owners at gunpoint.

Officer-in-Charge of SARS in Ikeja Mohammed Ahmed, a Chief Superintendent (CSP) led a decoy team to arrest the two suspects at Ojuelegba.

The command’s spokesman, Olarinde Famous-Cole, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) said the Toyota Camry was snatched while the owner was negotiating a bend to drive into his house. Famous-Cole gave the car’s chassis number as 4TIBG22KXYU69371 and the grey Lexus, JI6GF10U0Y0058148.

He said: “We advise members of the public to be weary of any strange faces lurking around their gates when driving into their house at night. The strange faces might be members of an armed robbery gang assigned to monitor your movement. Someone will just emerge from nowhere with a gun to your head. You won’t be able to do anything in such situation.

“For the attack on the man who was driving into his house at Oworonsoki, the suspects waited for him to enter his compound before they struck.”

The police, he said, recovered two cartridges and a locally made pistol from the suspects. The police are on the trail of other members of the gang.